The Macedonians were nervous enough already. They’d thought the desert was as bad as it got, but that was before they got out on the ocean. All these theories about Athenian seamanship and shipbuilding and maritime tradition were all very well, but the fact of the matter is that the Macedonians j...
Some lines came back to him: ‘What are we? Beings of a day / Shadows of a dream. But when / The light, god-given, the light / When that comes / Brightness is on us, brightness / And life is lovely.’ And so it was: light coming, alighting, playing over all, but over the two of them in particular, ...